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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

A six-storey lobby lined with vermillion columns, glass jewels and a colossal chandelier - hidden for decades under grime until a 12-million-dollar restoration pulled back the curtain in 1988. The Fox Theatre at 2211 Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit opened on 21 September 1928 as film mogul William Fox's flagship: at more than 5,000 seats, the largest theatre in the city and today the largest surviving movie palace of the 1920s anywhere. C. Howard Crane designed it in an "exotic" style all i...